Today, Aphex Twin’s label Warp has announced that there will be advance listening events across Europe and North America for SYRO, open to the public via a lottery. The lottery opens Sunday August 31 at 7 a.m. EST and closes Tuesday September 2 at midnight.

As much as I like to think I don’t really like fans – I mean, it’s not very healthy. You can’t be thinking about keeping other people happy, going in circles. But that was really touching, and really sweet. And I’m getting a bit older. It’s like, “Okay. People out there really, really want stuff off me, so I can’t deny it. Let’s put it out.

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